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So where's the linux codec? I downloaded a movie in 264 and I have to use Windows to watch it. I can't even burn it to DVD since the only program I found would only view it.Originally Posted by drizek
It is good. That movie is really sharp, and not a huge file. Less than 1GB.d9 says it is the best.
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http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html
download for x264 for linux. ive never tried it under linux so i really dont know how well it works at this point. it is still not complete i guess, which is why it isnt in the repos.
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Xvid.
All the videos I have ever downloaded were ether Xvid, WMV, or KVCD (which I think is mpeg). The two latter as far as I know are not open source.
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Ogg (i.e. Theora video stream, Vorbis audio and Ogg container) is currently the most open video standard. Dirac is simply a video codec at present - and an immature one at that.
Video codecs such as XviD and x264 are components of the MPEG-4 international standard (Part 2 and Part 10 respectively). MPEG-4 isn't as open as Ogg but its advantages are much wider hardware support and superior quality video.
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